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Another example of LRH, the promotional and marketing genius, pushing a good idea into a very bad idea. Maintaining prospect and customer files is a great idea for most businesses, more so if you have free labor that has to blindly follow directions. The problem for Scientology is that NO ONE can challenge a rule that may have briefly worked decades ago. Hey Scientology,Keep wasting your meager resources.

RB: Thanks for identifying this new disease that affects a few poor compliant schmucks that live within a few miles of an org. Poor Hubby has a severe case of Chronic Central Filitis.

The good news — CCF is a handy alternative fact (condition) for our post-truth world. — Handy to get a few days off your real job.

The better news, it is totally reversible. Have a glass or two of good red wine. Con passione punch an old pillow a few dozen times, or until the feathers fall out, while swearing “I hate their **** filing”. Then you must a phone to say you are disconnecting from the org. — NO ifs, a to e’s, or buts. Slam.

Little personal anecdote from the 1990s: In 1992 I was the head of Department 5 FSO. Part of if were the “Central Files”. They were of course backlogged and part of my job duties was “to get the CF into PT (present time)”, which meant “up to date”. At a certain point that was physically impossible as I had no staff left in the CF section. So I had to organize “all hands” actions where the whole org would sporadically come to my department and file some of the newly arrived invoices and letters. Needless to say, I spent days and nights between those files.

In the midst of all of this, someone told me that the Central Files from the “ship” (i.e. the “Apollo”) had never been merged with the CF of the “Flag Land Base” and that they had been sitting in the so-called “book warehouse” for the past 16 years. When I went over there I found approximately 12,000 files in old metal cabinets. I randomly looked through them and actually found the old Flag Ship Org CF file of Craig Jensen. “Let’s use this one and do a trial run.”, I thought to myself. So I took the file, walked from the warehouse to the Coachman building, into my department, to the J-section of the “hot files” of the CF. I found the Jensen-file and conscientiously added the precious letters and invoices from 1974 and 1975 to the current file.

While I was doing this an inner voice was telling me that I would never be able to get the CF into PT. “You are kidding yourself if you believe that you can do this.”, *it* told me. At the same time I was experiencing an overwhelming feeling of fatigue.

A few weeks later I returned to Germany and never came back.

The above story was one of the key moments that allowed me to gradually free myself from the organization’s ideology.

I’m watching the opening winter Olympics, this cult has commercials for Scientology.org, and states “we know your interested” with a figure 8 on its side meaning infinity. Am I the only one here wishing they would stop polluting the world? Why can’t I watch anything without them screwing it up?

These stories are planted every year or two to try to deal with the fact that him being a scientologist keeps people away from his movies. Usually the stories appear coincident with a new Mission Impossible movie coming out. If you actually read the stories they don’t say what the headline implies.

And rather stupid to boot doing his own stunts, breaking his ankle, just so he can brag he does his own stunts. As for his “acting”, he’s very obvious in his scenes. Same old same old. I recall seeing him in the role as the frenetic brother of Dustin Hoffman in “Rainman” and thought he was brilliant. Then I discovered that was his normal personality. That ended any TC films for me.

His career has been primarily built on what we used to know as “teeny boppers”. 12=16 year olds who “fall in love” with good looking actors. He’s pretty long in the tooth for that now, but too arrogant to acknowledge the fact of aging.

You know, it is too bad that Tom Cruise is in that cult. I used to like his serious movies, not the action films. I felt he was robbed of the Oscar for best actor for Born on the Fourth of July.

But I just can’t bare to see him anymore. He is so tarnished with the toxicity of scientology. And even if he did leave scientology, he still has an awful lot to answer for, and many apologies to make… maybe starting with Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, and Suri.

Yea. I read the article about TC leaving Scientology. .he saying its a ” beautiful religion ” lol
He has been wined and dined ..been DMs favorite. .no wonder its “beautiful” ..
Never spent a day in RPF im sure

Dead filed is when they make a notation in your CF (contact file) that you are not to be contacted anymore. It literally says “dead file” on the file, but it stays in the CF so they know for future reference.

In my case it was because I got angry at a teenage ethics officer who suggested I divorce my non scientologist wife because she had problems with the high prices of doing services. I think he did it to cover up the upset he caused with me. I was in good standing and had money on account at the time. I was never told about this at the time or even called back into ethics, he just cut my comm lines to the org on the sly.

Twisted.

There is certainly some irony in the org asking for and accepting my volunteer service while supposedly a person not to be contacted anymore. I was still allowed to go the the idea org opening afterwards and still get contacted!

Further irony…My non scientologist wife was and still is in that same org’s CF, and still gets letters! She did one minor 1 or 2 day Div 6 course 20 years ago and they don’t give up trying to save her eternity or whatever.

She has never called herself or considered herself a scientologist, and never replied to any calls or letters. They used commercial tracing services to update her address over the years.

The ethics files (which you are supposed to be allowed to see upon request) will have Knowledge reports (KR’s) others have written on you, which frequently are not really accurate, but deal with things they think they observed, and other documents about dealings with the ethics office, conditions assigned and there write-ups.

The real juicy stuff is in your PC folder (Pre-Clear Folder, all the stuff the auditor writes down during session and Case Superviser notes). You are never allowed to see this, but it is your most intimate life confessions. You should know what is in that! You are the one who provided the info.

Of course the CoS, with its totally borked CF, is also totally fucucated in its other files. They usually lose your PC folders in some warehouse. I’m not worried, they couldn’t dig out the dirt they have on me without calling in independent wog researchers at great cost, who understand and can navigate massive piles of unorganized papers.

I don’t believe that Travolta cares about his gayness, or former gayness, or any of his sexuality issues being exposed. I think he just loves being a father. I don’t know him, but I believe he really loved his son Jett and that he believed that what he was doing and not doing for Jett were the right things, and that when that boy died he was utterly devastated. I believe – again, I don’t know him so this is all based on a sense I have of him via decades of interviews and articles – I believe that the leverage the cult has on him is threat of disconnection from his children, and that the thought of losing them – including the new baby of course – is just unthinkable to him. My opinion is that if not for his children – not his wife, but his children, he wouldn’t give a tinker’s damn about anyone knowing he’s gay or bi sexual or whatever his orientation is. Now, that said,on the other hand, I think Kelly Preston cares ENORMOUSLY about anyone believing her husband to be gay. Once more, for the record, I don’t KNOW, this is just a sense I have of him, and of her.

Laughter – It might be a good coined word to add to scn admin and tech dictionaries with a definition liked scattered, dispersed, buttered all over the universe etc. “Things are getting rather fucucated around here.”

Dave – That’s an informative and funny summary above. Thanks! I also learned a new word, “borked” which hit my funny bone. I think I’ll add “all borked up” in place of you now what in polite conversation.

on fucucated maybe you meant furcated, forked; branching
Depending on how you pronounce it, fucucated is kind of a word play

When I was active, the org had 4 or 5 different contacts for me. They would send stuff to old addressed and frequently had the wrong phone number for me.
Ironically, once I left they now have completely accurate info on me without me providing it, and have stopped trying to recover as if they know I am posting here under a pseudonym and on twitter.

Whoa! This RB has my homunculus doing cartwheels inside my head.
This guy’s Counter Intention is through the roof. Somebody call him a whaaaaambulance. He needs to get his Confront in so he can send a letter to the ED stating that he is Ending Cycle on Scientology with a salutatious ending of ‘Done, sir!’.

Looking at the bright side of things and disregarding motivation, it was nice that 30 years later and 2,000 miles away from where I now live someone was thinking about me.
(ok, ok – it was just a joke)

CF, Central Files. “By policy, the names of any Scientologists at any org who have ever received a major service at an organization below Flag must be forwarded to Flag, where the names become the CF for Flag. A major service is considered paying for and completing a level or training, technical or administrative, or an auditing intensive. To sign up for a major service, a member must either have 6 months free IAS membership in existence, or be on the yearly paid membership.” – Joe Harrington.

For me it’s basically trivia knowledge. I could care less if the CoS or an org has my folders molding in a closet somewhere. One thing of note, however. That org had no way of knowing my current mailing address unless they searched the internet. Apparently there are now internet sites where, for a nominal fee, anyone can “research” anyone else.

Correct, Richard. Anyone can get anybody’s address for a nominal fee. All that needed is the person’s name, age or approximate age, and state of residence or a state in which the person resided in the past. Punch this in and all KINDS of stuff comes up on a person. I know because I did it on myself. I did a search on myself because I’m looking to buy a place and I know these websites are used. Anyway, what came up on me included all my former addresses, phone numbers, relatives, social media accounts AND, shock of shocks, a bankruptcy in 1995 – the report said, innacurately. This had to have been confused with someone else of the same name because never in my life have I ever declared bankruptcy. Very upsetting to me at the time. So what’s reported can be wrong. It was one hell of a deal to get it straightened out. Anyway, point being, its totally a no brainer for the cult (or anyone) to get hold of any person’s current address, phone, email, etc. even if that person’s been missing from Scientology for many decades. Costs about $40 or $50 a month and there are literally hundreds of these online companies. They charge extra if you want court records like for arrests, etc.

IIRC there recently was a Tony Ortega blog post where it was stated Flag had 70,000 people in CF. If indeed people buying a major service at a Class V org also get into CF at Flag while never having been there, that maybe puts the 70,000 number in perspective.

Invoices of paid services, letters from the person, copies from the organization to that person and other random documents. I do not remember where it was stated but Hubbard said once that the “Central Files section was the brain of the organization.

LRH inserted an arbitrary on Mankind’s goal because, well, he made himself the authority on the subject. No peer review.
His invalidation of any criticism was the statement: It doesn’t have to be true, only workable.
This leads us to the motto of Dianetics and Scientology: Postulate. Publish. Print. Charge Public.

Curiosus, respectfully I disagree. That comes from a company’s usually unwritten policy which nevertheless gets communicated very clearly: “NO excuses. We DON’T want to hear excuses. PRODUCE, and produce CONTINUALLY, or you’re OUT”.

I am not ashamed to say that the Central Files of the FSO was my universe, the proof of my whole existence, my reason to live. The future of mankind depended on me getting that thing into “PT” (“present time” = “not backlogged” = “up to date”). There were many nights which I spent between those files, occasionally falling asleep on the floor, waking up in horror, continuing filing.

I was told by senior management (and I believed it) that “the FSO could not make it above the ‘Make Breakpoint’ unless the Central Files were in PT.”

Ah, yes, good ole Central Files! If these asinine orgs would only find a CF Officer who was competent and kept the damn files in present time, then these bass-ackwards filing assignments wouldn’t be necessary!
Or, like the husband said, just computerize the whole damn thing!
Yeah, I’ve seen instances where one person had a multitude of CF folders under several different names. Know why they wouldn’t just combine them? Because LRH said in a PL that you never remove a file from Central Files.
Cue the laughter!

After years of no mail from the cult, I began to receive mail again…
I managed to stop this flow by writing “back to the sender, life is much better outside Scientology. Check http://www.forum.exscn.net” on the envelope.
It took about 2-3 months and bingo! no more mail!

I can exactly say when org is having a really bad week or even month, when they start to call daily to everyone and send them tons of mail and email spam.
Our cat is awesome. And we have funny story about her and scn, when I was in the middle of grade 3 and my wife was on the NED our cat got very ill, so we had to miss sometime to look after her. Of course we were sent to ethics, where ethics officer absolutely seriously told us that our cat is an external influence and a distraction and that cats can be sp’s, and he can send us to the pts handling right now.
I asked her about LRH reference or policy letter about sp cats so we were of the hook.
But this was one of the first time when I asked myself what a hell I’am doing with my life.

2) When you receive a business reply envelope or postage paid survey, stuff all of your saved promo into it and mail it back to them on their dime. You can also pay for the return yourself, but if you’re like most ex-culties, you’ve paid more than enough already. My motto is “not one thin dime” for them ever again. NEVER.

3) Use a bold colored pen or marker to add cheerful notes to the blank spaces on surveys, promo, etc. Stay ‘up-tone’ and don’t sink to the OSA level of attack. These people are victims, not enemies. Ask thought provoking questions like, “are you happier now than before you became a scientologist?”, “how is your bridge progress?”, “when was the last time you talked to your family?”, “where is your passport?”, etc. Be sure to include a few internet resources like the address for this blog, Tony Ortega, OTVIIIisgrrr8!, Wikipedia, Chris Shelton, Operation Clambake, etc. If you must engage in snark, you can always ask about Shelly’s whereabouts. Or Heber’s. Or any high level exec for that matter. You can ask when SMP will start broadcasting or how full their ideal org is. These things are sure to land someone in ethics, but it might just be enough to wake them up or at least plant a seed.

4) Wait patiently. Your flood of mail will reduce to a trickle. Persist with steps 1-3 as long as the mail keeps coming, but it should stop completely within a couple of months.

5) Live with the regret. The downside of this is that with no more cult mail coming in, you won’t be able to send messages free of charge to the poor buggers stuck in the mail room. There’s always a downside to everything.

6) Rejoice in the knowledge that you are doing your part to save vast forests from the logger’s axe as a result of eliminating cult mail. Also rejoice in the knowledge that you may have planted a seed of doubt that might one day bloom in the bright sunshine of truth.

Much appreciated, thanks. I did something like this with a phone call. One of my questions was “when was the last time you had a decent meal”?, click. I’m happy to say that since then I haven’t received any more calls.

“B” should stand for brilliant. I’m a #5er. Definitely dead-filed, no more cult mail. I’ll live with the regret 🙂 as I would LOVE to have cult mail so that I could follow your advice today. Not to gush but its superb, really.

This is an exciting time to produce a new sit-com for Scientology TV. I am working on some video clips showing Hubbard and Blavatsky in an argument. It will be very funny when it is finished. In the first take, Hubbard gets trapped by Blavatsky who accuses him of copying her ideas. Hubbard responds by reading the “source” policy. As was her custom when frustrated, Blavatsky throws the butter at him.

Important Quotes

If the org slumps during this transition period, don't engage in "fund raising"
or "selling postcards" or borrowing money. Just make more income with Scientology.
L Ron Hubbard From HCOPL URGENT ORG PROGRAMMING

"We own a tremendous amount of property. We own a tremendous amount of material and so forth, and it keeps growing.
But that’s not important. When buildings get important to us, for God sakes, some of you born revolutionists will you please blow up central headquarters".
L Ron Hubbard Lecture 31 Dec 1960

"Personal integrity is knowing what you know. What you know is what you know and to have the courage to know and say what you have observed".- LRH from Personal Integrity

"It is necessary to happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists of professing to believe what he does not believe." Thomas Paine

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” - Martin Luther King

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“Communication is the universal solvent” - L Ron Hubbard

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” Thomas Paine

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth." William Faulkner

"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis." Dalai Lama